Author Archives: Henriette Campagne

The Judicial Nominating Council will accept applications for the position of associate justice of the Appeals Court until Dec. 20. Applications may be obtained by writing to the JNC, Room 54, State House, Boston, MA, 02133; or by calling the ...

A Superior Court judge has ordered the state to stop disseminating information about sex offenders considered the most likely to commit another sex crime. Public defenders had argued the offenders were placed in high-risk categories without being given a chance ...

The Senate Post Audit and Oversight Committee will investigate registration problems experienced by some voters on Election Day because of the new motor-voter law, the committee chairwoman announced. The committee will investigate why some voters who registered to vote at ...

State Treasurer Joe Malone has reversed himself and is now urging legislators to pass a law that would force him to stop investing some $180 million of state pension funds in tobacco stocks. Malone said in a letter to Senate ...

William D. Delahunt was voted 10th District congressman in the Nov. 5 election, but it wasn’t until a week ago that he learned his margin of victory in September’s Democratic primary. The Supreme Judicial Court finally released a written decision ...

A Boston Municipal Court judge has begun throwing prostitutes in jail, hoping to help them escape lives of pimps and drugs. “The idea is not so much to punish these kids,” said Judge Theodore S. Bakas, 68. “What I’m trying ...

Massachusetts may save $15 million after taking steps toward state pension reform, state Treasurer Joe Malone said. The new Pension Reserve Investment Management Board took over the Massachusetts State Teachers’ and Employees’ Retirement Systems Trust, or MASTERS, and the Pension ...

Margaret Marshall, a top official at Harvard University and an expert on intellectual property law, has been sworn in as an associate justice to the Supreme Judicial Court. She became the second woman to sit on the state’s highest court ...

The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that state prisoners can be prosecuted for crimes they commit while behind bars, even if prison officials already punished them. The case involved five state prisoners who were placed in a prison disciplinary unit ...

Gov. William F. Weld has asked a judge to decide whether U.S. Sen. John Kerry broke their campaign spending agreement with two large infusions of personal money, including a new loan of $350,000. In a complaint filed in Suffolk Superior ...